Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1887-02-21
CORA STICKNEY,S TRANCE ENDED.
Dealh of the Minneapolis Girl After
Three Weeks in q Comatose state.

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Deal of the Minneapolis Girl Aftel
Three Weeks in a COmatose state.
| MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 20.-Regarding tn
case of Cora Stickney, whose body was de
posted in vault at Minneapolis at the TIM
death was supposed to have occurred, severa
| weeks since, and subsequently removed tt
her mothers house, where it still remains
| DR.. Palmer, reputable physician of thi'
| city, says: Though the body was kept II
tnat warm room for two weeks there were nc
traces of decomposition. A popularity was
that anywhere on the body the skin might
be pitted by the pressure. The place where
the finger left a mark would fill in red. Fur
thermore, when the flannel covering was
taken from the body what is termed goose
flesh would form, as is the case when the
living human body is exposed to cold air.
If the story of the girls mother and her
friends about the partial restoration few
days ago could be believed, that, in eonnec-
ten with the appearance of the body
at the time would confirm my Judgment that
the girl was in trance state. In any event
the case is very remarkable, a-d the fact that
the body did not decompose would indicate
that death had not taken place. I consulted
two prominent physicians, DIR. Charles T.
Pillsbury and DR.. Graham of northeast Min
neapolis; also with the undertaken who buried
the girl. They advised me to build up
warm fire, keep the body warm and wait de-
velopments. There was no change until
yesterday morning, when was told a little
after midnight the watchers had heard sounds
in the throat of the girl, and sooa after
wards it was noticed that the body
was decaying rapidly. I saw that decompo-
sition had begun and accordingly told Mrs.
Stickney that the body would be ready any
time for interment. 1 believe that up to
that time the girl had been in trance state.
brought to she would live more than an hour.
I believe that when the girl WAC first thought
to have died there was water about the heart
and when she was in the vault it froZe.
When the body was warmed up and signs of
returning life were perceived this water in
terfered with the action of the heart and it
had to stop, although it had commenced
beating"
Five Months without Food or Drink.
WABASH, Ind, Feb. 2O.-Information was
received to night of change in the condition
of Mary Baker, the fasting girl of Monon,
White county, on the one hundred and six
teenth day Of the fast. It was found that
she could retain water on her stomach, and
since then she has taken food in moderate
quantities and is improving rapidly. Her
fast is regarded by medical men as the most
wonderful on record, she is said to have
neither eaten nor drank during the long pc
Rod named. The change in her condition
took place when death was expected.
EXCITING TIMES In IRELAND.
One Hundred Armed Men Outwitted
by Twensy-Five Women.
BOSTON, Feb. 20.-J. ]. Clancy cables
from London to the Herald
The week has been an eventful and excit.
ing one both in Ireland and at Westminster
1t began in Ireland with the proclamation OF
the Loug hrea meeting on Sunday and the
defiance of that Dublin castle ukase by
Davitt and O'Brien. The police that oc
casion SO many others were outwitted
and then they took vengeance by smashing
as many heads as they could reach with theil
batons. The result CT the campaign in
Loughrea is that the revolt of the Clanri-
carde tenantry is now complete. Fifteen
hundred tenants, including all the shopkeep
ers in Loughrea, have crossed the rubicon
and will never pay another penny to Clanri
carde if he does not submit to their demands
The consequence will be that wholesale
real work will begin. The New
ross revolt is also a serious affair. The
evicted poor law guardians of that district
were lately dismissed by the local govern
ment board because they would not treat
evicted tenants ordinary paupers and
three paid men were put in their places.
Then the rate payers resolved to pay no more
rates All the poorhouse officials resigned
and lastly the female inmates assaulted and
pelted with mud the Dublin castle trio. TIE
climax was reached yesterday and at the
same time occurred a veritable reductio ad
absurdum of castle rule, when one hundred
armed policemen entered the poorhouse to
arrest those female offenders and were baf-
fled by the girls simply taking off theil
clothes and going to bed. Twenty five naked
women, it may literally be said, beat one
hundred men armed to the teeth.
Then there is the State trial and attendant
jury packing. Nothing could be more
shameless and the consequence is that in
tense indignation and excitement prevails
not only in Dublin, but all over the country
The crown, however, will probably fail tc
get conviction, for their stupidity and
want of information led them to admit Oh
the jury two or three who are not rank
Orangemen. At Westminster lively events
are predicted in the near future in conse
quence of the ruling of the Speaker which
shut up Dillon on Thursday night last. 1t i:
not the Irish alone, but the whole Liberia
party who feel outraged by thai
absurd ruling, the effect O
which will be that one maj
can actually prevent debate on any subject
whatever if he chooses, and am unable tt
state that Parliament has not heard the las
of this action of the Speaker. Gladstone, OF
his return, will probably call attention to thu
matter, but even if he does not it is the firm
intention of several leading Liberals, even i
they have to take their time to do it, to fgh
the question out and also to have full dis
cussion on the Dublin jury packing, which
has now reached the proportion of grav
scandal.
CATTLE SWEPT OFF IN DROv ES
Appalling Effect of The Recent Storm
In The West.
LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. 20.-The damage t.
telegraph wires has made the task of collect
ing the details of the late storm in Colorado
and western Nebraska very slow. AS tn
news comes in it shows that the disturb
aDoa WAC tho worst in he history of the ra